10 commenti:

What a beautiful sad/happy story Andrea. If she had killed a Gemsbok then her leg could not have been broken so maybe she and the cubs are still there?

One time in Kruger a mother abandoned her 4 little cubs and they eventually got so thin, you could see every bone in their bodies. There, they do also not interfere with nature and let it take its course.

Just when I thought the cubs were going to die, a male lion killed a zebra and brought them food!!

It is almost unheard of for a male to do that and many of us shed lots of tear of joy that the cubs would survive.

Yes, these are the ways of the wild, sometimes cruel and sometime wonderful and true nature lovers have to accept both.

No matter how many years I spend working in the bush, there was always something new to learn and see. No two days were ever the same and there was always some animla doing something which was different.